Monday, March 28, 2011

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelans on Sunday to cut their calories to avoid obesity - the latest lifestyle recommendation by the self-proclaimed socialist crusader. More here:

Note: The pic above doesn't go with the story. They had no pic so I just found a random one on the web.

Something tells me this guy is going to be the victim of a violent revolution one day. How unfair. He'll have done nothing to deserve it ... it'll be a bolt from the blue ... no way for him to see it coming.

British Columnist Under Investigation For Criticizing Terrorists: "
In Great Britain, the historic cradle of liberty and sanctum of freedom of expression, it appears that you can no longer refer to Arab depravity in the slaughter of an Israeli family — including a three month-old baby — as they slept without someone going to the police to get you arrested for racism.

This is what happened to me. I wrote on my blog about the ‘the moral depravity of the Arabs’ who had murdered Udi and Ruth Fogel and their three children, 11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad and three-month-old Hadas in their home in the Samarian neighbourhood of Itamar, near Nablus, by cutting their throats while most of them were asleep.

I also pointed the finger for this atrocity at the ‘savagery’ of the Palestinian Authority, whose educational materials along with the mosques and TV stations under its control incite frenzied hatred of Jews; which teaches its children that the highest aspiration is to murder Israelis; and which glorifies those who perpetrate such unspeakable acts by naming squares and public places after them.

Next thing I knew was that the Guardian ran a story saying I was being investigated by the UK Press Complaints Commission, which had received two complaints about my remarks – and I had also been reported to the Bedfordshire police for racism.

This came as something of a surprise. If I was indeed being investigated, no-one had seen fit to tell me about it. Indeed, at time of writing I still have not heard whether either of these bodies is investigating these complaints at all.

Stranger still was the involvement of the Bedfordshire police. I do not live in Bedfordshire, an area north of London. I have never had anything to do with the place. What could my remarks about the Itamar massacre possibly have to do with Bedfordshire?

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Look at these Muslims stomp on an effigy of President Bush. It's because they hate America (because of Bush, of course.) It's a good thing we elected Obama so America is once again respected and loved in the world. Aren't you glad you listened to the American media and voted as you were told?

Yes, the Democratics have managed to heal America. Everything worked out exactly as the media they told you. Pat yourselves on the back, sheep geniuses.

Sri Lankan Muslims beat and stamp on an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest rally against the allied forces' air strike in Libya, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, March 25, 2011. NATO's military staff is drawing up detailed plans to assume full control of the no-fly zone over Libya in coming days, after member nations agreed to take on the operation from a U.S.-led coalition.

Below is an essay by the Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels on a topic that has greatly preoccupied Western European leaders in recent months: the failure of Multiculturalism.

Why multiculture will always fail

by Dr. Nicolai Sennels

Several leading European politicians have now declared the multicultural project dead and impossible to implement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has concluded that the “so-called ‘multikulti’ concept — where people would ‘live side-by-side’ happily — did not work” (BBC, 17. October 2010). Merkel said straight out that the attempt to build a multicultural society has “utterly failed”. British prime minister David Cameron (BBC, 5 Feb 2011) and French president Nicolas Sarkozy (The Telegraph, 11 Feb 2011) quickly followed suit and declared multiculturalism a “failed” effort. Cameron added that the “UK needed a stronger national identity” and Sarkozy argued that “We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him.”

As a psychologist who has had hundreds of immigrants as clients, my conclusion is that the multicultural society will always fail because it is contrary to the fundamental psychological principles that are needed for building healthy communities. This basic psychological principle concerns identity — national identity. As quoted above, Cameron and Sarkozy reached the same conclusion.

National identity

For a society to succeed, its citizens must be able to unite around common core values. The most fundamental values are national identity and a wish for fellowship with one’s countrymen. National identity means that you feel like a Dane if you live in Denmark. Fellowship means that similarities — first of all the fact that you live in the same country — means more than differences, for example religion, color, or country of origin.

National identity and the feeling of fellowship increase work morale, taxpaying morale, morale in relation to social services, and respect for the country’s laws in general. People who experience themselves as part of the community will feel that they harm themselves if they harm the community. National identity is also important for respect towards the nation’s authorities.

The sense of community is crucial to the quality of life for us “pack” animals, and common core values are the foundation of the mutual trust and mutual helpfulness, openness, understanding and respect among the population. People who are deeply divided on core values and who want the community to evolve in completely different directions simply feel less fellowship with one another.

When people identify with a culture whose values are not rooted in the nation’s indigenous culture, this identification happens at the expense of identification with the greater community. The step towards acting in violation of the community’s interest is therefore shorter, which is one of the reasons for the dramatic over-representation of certain immigrant groups in crime and unemployment statistics.

Multiculturalization of a society, therefore, leads to an increased need for control, prohibitions, police, and tougher sentences in order to prevent internal factions from cheating or committing crimes against the community. Multicultural societies thus move easily towards a less democratic and more fascistic condition. The former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt concludes in hindsight: “The concept of multiculturalism is actually incompatible with a democratic society. … If one asks, where in the world are multicultural societies functioning, he quickly comes to the conclusion, that multiculturalism can only exist peacefully within strong authoritarian states.” (Hamburger Abendblatt, 24 Nov 2004).

Anti-culture

Fortunately, immigrants from almost all over the world have been able to accept and identify with our basic Western values. There are a few problems with organized crime and demographic clumping among immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe but it has never became a threat to society.

Despite certain success stories and role models, one culture has proved impossible to integrate sufficiently, namely the Islamic one. Muslim culture and religion have demonstrated some inherent self-protective mechanisms which makes Muslim immigrants resistant to external influences from the host culture.

What we are dealing with here is a culture that in the most important areas — including true democracy, free speech, equality of women, and tolerance towards other faiths — has changed very little or not at all since it first appeared in a medieval clan society 1,400 years ago. It is almost unbelievable, given how much the rest of the world has changed during that time. The unfortunate combination of excessive Western tolerance and a lack of flexibility from the Muslim culture’s side has resulted in a kind of cultural osmosis, where Western values have not yet been able to penetrate the Islamic world while Islamization diffuses from the Muslim community into non-Muslim societies.

In multicultures which includes Muslim culture, the problems arising from lack of national identity and sense of community are therefore proportionately larger. Hence today the term “multiculture” is equivalent to societies where both Muslim and non-Muslim cultures exists. A more precise term would therefore be “bi-culture”. Instead of integrating into the common society, parallel societies appears, where benefit fraud and tax evasion are highly prevalent and where lawlessness and hostility against non-Islamic authorities are extreme and often violent.

According to police, Denmark has 25 to 30 “sensitive areas” with many immigrants, where police and fire departments can not work without risking being attacked (Midtjyllands Avis, August 7th, 2010). One among many examples is the Facebook page “Ishoj Ghetto”, which encourages its 650 members with the following battle cry: “My brothers. We shall destroy all the police cars approaching Ishoj. It is our city.” (Ekstrabladet, August 3rd, 2010). Holland, France, Britain, Belgium, Germany and most other Western European countries have cities and ghettos with similar problems. A study in Taastrup (city in Denmark) shows that immigrants and their descendants are behind 75 percent of all benefit fraud cases — although the proportion of immigrants is only 21 percent (Jyllands-Posten, August 31st, 2010).

Across Western Europe, there are parallel Muslim societies that have reached a stage so advanced that they have built their own political, economic and legal infrastructure. The executive, legislative and judicial power lies with the imams, police-like Muslim father patrol groups, homemade Sharia Courts and Islamic mediation meetings. The economy is characterized by the fact that Muslims prefer to buy goods and services from other Muslims, and the Islamic Havala banking (a system of private money transfers outside of authorities and banks) has largely replaced the normal ways of conducting financial transactions. It is too short a jump from this well-developed Islamic infrastructure and aggressive attitude toward the non-Islamic environment to the demands for autonomy and secession. Such demands have been made by Muslims throughout Islamic history, and in today’s China, Russia, Thailand, Africa, and the Balkans Muslims use guerrilla warfare, terrorism, kidnappings and threats to achieve this end.

Common sense and mature life experience could have prevented us from making the mistake to begin with. A couple of decades too late — always being the last to admit a mistake — our politicians finally admit the obvious problems (but only after opinion polls proved that the majority of voters do not want multiculture). But what will they do about it?

Three obvious solutions

The first and most basic solution is to stop immigration from countries that are not Western-oriented, which primarily applies to the Islamic world. As the Americans says: “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

Secondly, we need to do as Angela Merkel, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy recommend: We must strengthen the national identity both among immigrants and the indigenous population. This is done primarily by making our educational institutions and public service media focus more on our countries’ history, culture and values. Moreover, we must force immigrants to integrate by making language proficiency, knowledge about our culture and history, adherence to the law and tax payment for e.g. 10 years a condition for receiving social benefits. Problematic demographic developments can partly be solved by limiting the state’s economic child support to the country’s average amount of children per mother (2 children). We do that in Denmark and it prevents immigrants from moving to Denmark, having/bringing a lot of kids and living on the money that the family get from the state for each child.

Thirdly, we must stop diluting and challenging our own culture and national identity through Islamization and parallel societies. The influential mosques and Islamic cultural centers makes Muslims stay in a very rigid version of their original culture. Dominant symbols like minarets, Halal food in public institutions, closure of public taxpayer-funded sports facilities in order to make Muslim women able to use them, state-supported Koranic schools, prayer rooms in public workplaces, hospitals, etc. are also harmful to the development of national identity among both immigrants and the rest of us. Islamization and parallel societies make it possible to live from cradle to grave in non-Muslim countries without ever leaving the circle of Muslim culture. It is contradictory and counterproductive to want national identity among immigrants when the government simultaneously allows and even supports Islamization.

Muslim parallel societies in the West produce tens of thousands of alienated citizens with very low or no national identity and loyalty — every year. These parallel communities must be dissolved by all means possible. This includes zero tolerance towards any breach of the law. Tax authorities, Social Services and the police play a crucial role in this context.

I would like to add that after working as a prison psychologist for years, my conclusion is that the only thing criminal immigrants really fear is being deported. We also need to do as the Danish Municipality of Aarhus does: Send female social workers or midwives into the homes of non-Western immigrants to meet with the women (without participation of male family members) to ensure that they and their daughters are safe, free and know their rights to divorce, and about family planning, contraception, women’s shelters and repatriation (state-paid emigration to the family’s country of origin).

In order to stop multiculture and challenge the rigid traditionalistic, unassimilable and widespread version of Muslim culture, the women have to be freed to choose their sexual partners, number of children, clothing style, and religion. As the Danish Muslim activist Kristina Khader, initiator of the women’s advisory centre Project New Hymen, told me in an interview: “The social control of women aims to preserve the core of the Muslim culture. A big part of the Muslim culture’s core is about female sexuality.” (JP-blog “Kulturkloeften”, November 2, 2009).

In general multiculture must be fought by making the inability or unwillingness to integrate so practically difficult and economically unprofitable that repatriation the only attractive option.

This is a long list of necessary demands and consequences, but the carrot is equally big: Participation on equal footing in the world’s freest, richest and best functioning culture — the West.

Nicolai Sennels is a psychologist and the author of “Among Criminal Muslims: A Psychologist’s experiences with the Copenhagen Municipality”. A list of his previous articles is here."

Of course, that’s the same reason she should never have appeared on your nightly news in the first place. But she served the left’s purposes when we had a Republican president, so the media presented her as the voice of reason and image of compassion.

Oh, sure, now that she's attacking "a person of color with an Islamic name" the media has figured out that she's nuts

We normally don’t repeat complete articles, but this is worth reading in its entirety so you fully understand who the leftist media foisted upon us as someone worth listening to.

Here are Sheehan’s own words from her website. If you don’t want to read the whole rambling manifesto, we’ve taken the liberty of bolding some of the highlights:

Three days after the current evil Emperor was installed by the oligarchy, he ordered a drone bombing in Northern Pakistan (a country that we are supposedly not at war with) that killed 36 civilians and since then, he has been absolutely mad about drone bombings, increasing Bush’s total over 300 percent in far fewer years. Even though I never supported Obama who funded wars as a Senator and who is NOT a peace president, I said at the time: “Three days in and already a war criminal.” I was thoroughly attacked by Democrats who once affiliated as “peace” activists for not giving Obama “time.”

Well, Gitmo is still open, military tribunals will resume for men who have been illegally detained for up to a decade now, US Tomahawk missiles are raining down on innocents in Libya (killing people to save them is the NEW PEACE), dictators are still supported, Israel is still occupying and oppressing Palestine, activists are being targeted by Obama’s DOJ while BushCo are being protected, the USA PATRIOT ACT was renewed, the Gulf is dying–and where is the outrage?

Now that Cindy Sheehan is attacking liberals, she couldn't get on the network news if she set her hair on fire

This is where I think the outrage is–the oligarchy of this country is clever, they knew that it would take a person of color with an Islamic name who sold his soul many years ago–to fulfill the neocon agenda of planetary dominance (see: Project for a New American Century). So if one criticizes Obama, then we are attacked by War Loving Democrats for being: “divisive fanatics,” “racist,” “Tea Baggers,” “crazy,” etcetera. Could McCain be getting away with bombing North Africa? Or does that take an African-American to give political cover to the war jackals?The last four paragraphs were for War Loving Democrats, Greens and Socialists–yes I have heard from all three groups denouncing me for being against bombing Libyans to save them (same thing BushCo said about Iraqis, by the way–and the very same rhetoric used for Vietnam, etc).

This next part is for war loving Republicans and “Independents,”

What? Are you people morons? First of all, you should be dancing in the streets praising the name of Obama like your comrades in the Democratic Party who hypocritically support his murders. Face it–YOU OVERTLY LOVE WAR–when a Republican is doing it. Admit it, you salivate over killing innocents so those “jihadist” babies won’t crawl over here to cut your throats and make your women wear burkas! How dare you attack me and complain that I don’t protest Obama’s wars, when you should be out supporting him with all of your violent hearts and souls.

Only in the mind of someone as disturbed as Cindy Sheehan would Barack Obama be seen as the fruition of a conservative plot.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

SPRINGFIELD -- The chairman and CEO of Peoria-based Caterpillar Inc. is raising the specter of moving the heavy equipment maker out of Illinois.

In a letter sent March 21 to Gov. Pat Quinn, Caterpillar chief executive officer Doug Oberhelman said officials in at least four other states have approached the company about relocating since Illinois raised its income tax in January. More here:

Well, here's the thing. Liberals refuse to leave people alone. They refuse to stop spending, preferring instead to raise your taxes. You think Caterpillar is going to pay those taxes? Think again. They have to turn a profit and grow the company or their stock price will drop and they will go out of business .... just like ALL businesses that can't make a profit.

If Caterpillar decides to stay they'll have to raise prices. If contractors have to pay more for their equipment, they have to charge YOU more for your construction. Also, higher prices for their equipment makes their competitor's product more attractive.

If the state doesn't make a special "deal" for Caterpillar, they'll lose that company and the people (not just Caterpillar employees) will lose jobs.

The libs are really stuck here. They have no morals so it'll be ok for them to make a special deal (the only people who don't get special deals are ... YOU.) On the other hand, libs don't really give a flaming damn about you so, why should they make a special deal? They're too busy proving how they've got their boots on the throat of evil corporations. No, I predict they won't cut a deal and Caterpillar will leave. I LOVE IT!!! KEEP VOTING FOR LIBS, DUMBASSES!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

By Thomas Conner, Ph.D.William P. Harris Professor of Military History Hillsdale College

The United States lost its last surviving veteran of the First World War on February 28, 2011. Frank Buckles, of Charles Town, West Virginia, passed away just a few weeks after his 110th birthday. Born in 1901, he had enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 at age sixteen after finally being able to fool a recruiter into thinking he was two years older and thus eligible to serve. He was not in combat, but served out the War in Europe and did not return home until January 1920. He found out that he was the last of our living veterans of the Great War in 2008, and when asked how that distinction felt, he said simply: “I realized that somebody had to be, and it was me.”

Buckles’ death severed the last living connection between us and the generation that put 4.7 million men under arms to go off and lick “Kaiser Bill,” the playful name Americans of that day gave to Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, our principal enemy in the conflict. That generation of our fighting men did defeat its enemy, but the world they were promised by the President (Woodrow Wilson) who had asked them to wage war did not materialize. Indeed, within a year or two of the formal end of the fighting, with many parts of Europe still simmering cauldrons of violence and revolution, there seemed little to show for America’s effort to “make the world safe for democracy.”

If not recognized, then, as the “Greatest Generation” of Americans, Buckles and his fellow “doughboys” served their country selflessly and honorably, and they deserve to be remembered more than they are. The commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, John J. Pershing, is one of only two of our countrymen (the other is George Washington) ever to be given the exceptional rank of General of the Armies. In the ranks of Pershing’s army were some of the most famous national figures from the next global struggle—George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and Harry Truman, to name a few. Roughly 100,000 of Pershing’s men were killed in action or died from the various infectious diseases that constantly stalked them. About one-quarter of those deaths, and sixty or seventy thousand more injuries, occurred in the War’s last battle in the Meuse-Argonne region of France, the bloodiest battle in the whole history of the United States. The cemetery maintained by our government to this day on that hallowed field is final “home” to 14,246 dead from that battle and some of the most heroic soldiers in American history. But, how many of us have ever heard the name of that place? And, not even one sitting President has paid homage to these all but forgotten warriors in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery.

I am ashamed to say I haven't heard the name of this place. I know that many of our soldiers were buried in France but I couldn't have told you the name of it ... sad, huh?

Sadly, too, while Buckles lived long enough to be rightly honored as the last American veteran of World War I, he also perceived in his final years the degree to which he and his generation had been forgotten. To his immense credit, he tried to do something about it. In 2009, Buckles appeared before a committee of the U.S. Senate to endorse the idea of building a national World War I memorial in Washington, something at least reminiscent of the majestic World War II memorial erected on the National Mall and dedicated in 2004. In the course of that Capitol Hill appearance, Buckles was escorted by Dylan Kessler, Hillsdale College Class of 2010, who was then interning in the office of John Thune of South Dakota, a supporter of the monument idea.

With Frank Buckles gone, and no living embodiment of his fellow soldiers of the Great War to take up this cause, there seems little reason to expect that such a structure will ever be built. It is worth recalling, after all, that it took herculean efforts by countless veterans of the Second World War to lobby for the idea, and then to raise the money privately over the better part of a decade to make the monument to the “Greatest Generation” a reality. In the face of ballooning debts and increasingly tight-fisted public spending, moreover, it is almost unimaginable that the federal government would fund a World War I monument. But if the memory of Frank Buckles’ generation may not find expanded expression in marble and fountains, today’s Americans should never allow themselves to ignore or forget what they did a century ago as brave young men on a mission thousands of miles from home to rid their world of threats to our precious freedom.

Dr. Thomas Conner is William P. Harris Professor of Military History at Hillsdale College. Along with courses in Western Heritage and American Heritage as part of Hillsdale's rigorous core curriculum, Dr. Conner also teaches upper-level courses on European history and the Two World Wars. He is one of the College's longest-serving faculty members, and has several times been named Professor of the Year by the student body.

Yes ... well ... I started thinking about this and I realized, I don't even know what started the first world war. So I went hunting for a primer and found this:

We'll start with the facts and work back: it may make it all the easier to understand how World War One actually happened. The events of July and early August 1914 are a classic case of "one thing led to another" - otherwise known as the treaty alliance system.

The explosive that was World War One had been long in the stockpiling; the spark was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

OH crap, they went and done it. They coulda just kilted at regular duke but nooooo, they had to go and kill a ARCHduke. I'll be they made a note to theyselfes after that shit.

Ferdinand's death at the hands of the Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist secret society, set in train a mindlessly mechanical series of events that culminated in the world's first global war. More here:

Final note: Don't make the name of your group sound all ominous (i.e. "Black Hand") and so forth if there is a chance you're going to push someone too far and then get your ass kicked.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

The switch from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time is upon us. It also represents the weekend that Arizonans will proudly announce their residency without your having to ask. Of course, you still won't care and it will 364 long days until they anything about which to brag.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Yes, I sure hope the Democratics keep blocking drilling ... and imposing more regulations on energy companies via the EPA etc -- don't you? Also, they need to keep their boot on the throat of the coal companies and block construction of nuclear power plants. GO DEMOCRATICS!!!

Of course, Obama told us this would happen. Of course, he couldn't actually pass "Cap & Tax" yet but he's implementing it through the EPA with regulation.
Oh, and whenever energy prices go up, EVERYTHING goes up because the cost of transporting goes up. Luckily, that only affects the evil rich ... the poor don't pay energy costs or gasoline.

Ha ha -- I couldn't resist posting this cuz it says it all about the diptard liberals in the Wisconsin state capitol building. To them a protest is nothing but a reason to party ... and, if you're a dumbass hippie, what's a party with no drum circle?

MADISON - The State Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating several death threats against a number of lawmakers in response to the legislature's move to strip employees of many collective bargaining rights.

Among the threats the Justice Department is investigationg is one that was emailed to Republican Senators Wednesday night. Newsradio 620 WTMJ has obtained that email.

The following is the unedited email:

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die. More here:

By the way, what's that in the background of that pic? Is that ... is that ... a Soviet Flag? Now, what on earth would a public sector union be indicating by flying a Soviet flag in the capitol building of Wisconsin? Ahhhh, it's prolly a photoshop job done by the Republicans just to make the public sector unions look bad. Those Republicans are full of violence and treachery.

"Operation Coffee Cup" speech. I heard parts of this on Rush's show today.My mother, who was an RN, told me never to be a doctor because of her fears of socialized medicine. Good thing I wasn't smart enough for Med school.It's 10 minutes long, but worth listening to.

Monday, March 7, 2011

When things get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody.

All we got to say on this proposition is this: first, me and you is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better; second, nobody ain’t got no right to take away none of our rights; third, every man has got a right to live, to come and go as he pleases, and to have a good time whichever way he likes, so long as he don’t interfere with nobody else. That any government that don’t give a man them rights ain’t worth a damn; also, people ought to choose the kind of government they want themselves, and nobody else ought to have no say in the matter. That whenever any government don’t do this, then the people have got a right to give it the bum’s rush and put in one that will take care of their interests. Of course, that don’t mean having a revolution every day like them South American yellowbellies, or every time some jobholder goes to work and does something he ain’t got no business to do. It is better to stand a little graft, etc., than to have revolutions all the time, like them coons, and any man that wasn’t a anarchist or one of them I.W.W.’s would say the same. But when things get so bad that a man ain’t hardly got no rights at all no more, but you might almost call him a slave, then everybody ought to get together and throw the grafters out, and put in new ones who won’t carry on so high and steal so much, and then watch them. This is the proposition the people of these Colonies is up against, and they have got tired of it, and won’t stand it no more.

The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February at $223 billion, according to preliminary numbers the Congressional Budget Office released Monday morning.

That figure tops last February’s record of $220.9 billion, and marks the 29th straight month the government has run in the red — a modern record. The last time the federal government posted even a monthly surplus was September 2008, just before the financial collapse. More here:

(CNN) -- U.S. gasoline prices increased nearly 33 cents in two weeks, the second-biggest two-week jump in the history of the gasoline market, according to a new survey of filling stations.

The latest Lundberg Survey of cities in the continental United States was conducted Friday. It showed the national average for a price of self-serve unleaded gasoline at $3.51, an increase of 32.7 cents from the last survey two weeks earlier, survey publisher Trilby Lundberg said. More here:

Yes, if ONLY it weren't for this pesky gas price problem, the economic recovery would be well underway. Wild and unstable gas prices have nothing to do with supply and demand ... no ... it's ALL the fault of Libya ... some podunk slab of desert in Africa. Keep remembering that as Obama keeps blocking drilling and shutting down massive parts of the industry in the gulf.

Friday, March 4, 2011

PHOENIX — A 575-pound man who gained a measure of fame as spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill — a Phoenix-area restaurant that unabashedly touts its unhealthy, high-calorie menu — has died.Restaurant founder Jon Basso told The Arizona Republic that River was more than the larger-than-life caricature he portrayed in promoting the restaurant in Chandler, which includes huge hamburgers, milkshakes and fries cooked in lard on its menu. (Lard will shortly be on the list of illegal substances, like Freon or DDT.)Basso said River was a creative genius who had been planning to take part in the shooting of a promotional spot called, "Heart Attack Grill: The Musical.""Cynical people might think this (River's death) is funny," Basso said. "But people who knew him are crying their eyes out. There is a lot of mourning going on around here. You couldn't have found a better person."Friends of 29-year-old Blair River say he died Tuesday, possibly from contracting pneumonia after a bout with the flu.The 6-foot-8 River was an Arizona state high school heavyweight wrestling champion in 1999 and played football at Mesa Community College.

Last time I heard, the flu and pneumonia were 100% unrelated to obesity or a rich diet. NOW they will be. Here comes the fast food tax.

By making sacrificial and proportional cuts in your own personal budget, you can appreciate that budget cutting really cuts to the quick.

The President ordered the cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget.

I'm so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same thing with my personal budget.

I spend about $4,000 a month on groceries, medicine, bills, etc., and now it's time to get out my budget cutting ax, go line by line through my expenses, and get to work on cutting back.

I'm going to cut my spending at exactly the same percentage ratio as the President did. ie., 1/35,000 of my total budget.

After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $4,000 a month, I'm going to have to cut that number downward by eleven cents! Yep!!! that's my equivalent to what the President did.

Yes, I know that’s a lot and I must somehow get by with $3,999.89, but that is what sacrifice is all about. The President has requested that we get some of our own

“skin in the game” with everyone else.

So we’ll just have to do without some things that are, quite frankly, luxuries that those eleven cents normally buy us..

Guess I'll have to put a little less Vermouth in my Manhattan!!!!!

Hope this helps brighten your day and shows you how hard our government is working to save our money!

Note: "A is A" sent this to me in an email. He must have been too busy to make an actual blog post which, in this case, means he would have had to cut and paste, tsk, the poor guy.

You know what I really like? Every time we start talking about cutting budgets, the first thing Democratics communists do is start threatening police/fire layoffs etc. Yes, they want to punish you for cutting their budgets. They want to teach your dumbass a lesson.

That's right, instead of cutting unnecessary programs and trimming giant, out-of-control programs that are breaking our asses, (i.e. cutting to the bone) they go straight for the bone. They do it every time, watch them. They love to threaten the sheep ... watch out, we're not cutting any of our pasture maintenance fees (they've hired their buddies to maintain the pastures and their buddies contribute to their reelection campaigns) nope, we'll have to layoff the sheepdog!! That's right .... and some of you sheep live in bad parts of the pasture .... capisce?

Yes, after listening to this college guy, I've really changed my mind. He's convinced me. He's a "Democratic" one of our intellectual betters.

I've noticed something. These "geniuses" all have one thing in common ... they all want me to do as they say (and they're willing to force me if necessary) and, they all want me to give them my private property (money.) That's the bottom line with all of them. They all have all kinds of arguments and "science-tific facts" but they all end up in the same place ... "Do as we say and give us your money."

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

So as you know, I often refer to "pointing and hollering 'witch'" to illustrate some point or another. Many years ago, I saw SNL do skits about witches and when the prosecutor, Jim Belushi, presented the evidence against the witch, it struck me that people who are easily led are subject to regarding "evidence" such as this as fact.

Libs are always using this technique and it is always successful (on other libs.) Think about it ... why on Earth would you use this technique unless you actually thought it was productive. If you had a clue about how you really looked, you'd avoid it like the plague.

Anyway, the specific part to which I refer is in this video ... starting at the 2-minute mark and going for about 30 seconds. So, from now on, when I say "pointing and hollering 'witch'" you'll know what's in my mind.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

BEIJING (AP) - China appears to be rolling back some press freedoms, barring foreign journalists from working near a popular Shanghai park and along a major Beijing shopping street after calls for weekly protests in those spots appeared online.

I have news for you ... a "freedom" isn't a "freedom" if it can be "rolled back" by any individual or group. It is only a privilege they ALLOW and revoke at their whim.

The new restrictions put the popular leisure spots on a par with Tibet as out-of-bounds areas where foreign reporters need special permission to work, and come after journalists were attacked and harassed while working in the areas over the weekend.

Bob Dietz, the Asia coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said the treatment of journalists in Beijing on Sunday was "the worst aggression against the foreign press we've seen since the Olympics in 2008."

"Such a heavy-handed response discredits the ruling Chinese Communist Party and highlights their fear of popular opposition," Dietz said in a statement. More here:

Ha ha, that's a good one. He says it "discredits" the communist party ... as if the communist party ever had any "credit." Hey, relax, asshat. The government is only doing this to be "fair." And isn't it always best for the government to decide what is fair and what is unfair? Yes, they should make up a doctrine to control the media ... they could call it "The Fairness Doctrine" or "Localization"... you know ... just catch up with the Democratics in the United States.